Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in central and western Los Angeles County, California, stretching from Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles to California State Route 1 at the Pacific Ocean. The boulevards is 22 miles in length, tracing the arc of mountains that form the northern boundary of the Los Angeles Basin, following the path of a 1780s cattle trail. The boulevard was expanded from Sullivan Canyon through Santa Monica to the east in the years after 1921. The Sunset Strip has been famous for its nightlife since the 1950s, and the boulevard was known for its street prostitution from the 1970s until the police drove out most of the prostitutes in June 1995. The boulevard is now known for its congestion and for the guitar shops and music-related businesses on the Hollywood section of the boulevard.